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Smith, James P. - 2004

This paper looks at the links between health and socio-economic status. It is generally assumed by non-economists that … it is low SES that causes ill health, but this paper asks whether the causation might also work the other way. Even if … the direction of causation is that SES mainly affects health, what dimensions of SES actually matter — the financial …

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International migration and net nutrition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : evidence from prison records

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late …

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Body mass, nutrition, and disease : current net nutrition during US economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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Late 19th and early 20th century native and immigrant body mass index values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2017

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …

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The Midlife Crisis

Giuntella, Osea; McManus, Sally; Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically experienced little or no illness, reside in some of the safest countries in the world, and live in the most...

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On the biological standard of living of eighteenth-century Americans : taller, richer, healthier

Komlos, John - 2003

This study analyses the physical stature of runaway apprentices and military deserters based on advertisements collected from 18th-century newspapers, in order to explore the biological welfare of colonial and early-national Americans. The results indicate that heights declined somewhat at...

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Health, wealth and inequality: a contribution to the debate about the relationship between inequality and health

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

We consider a differential game of a conflict between two factions who both have a desire to exact revenge. We show that, in contrast to conventional wisdom, the desire for revenge need not lead to escalation of conflicts. Surprisingly, in the open-loop equilibrium, the weaker faction exerts a...

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Biomarkers and long-term labour market outcomes : the case of creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - 2014

associations between creatine and labour market outcomes are robust to controlling for other biomarkers, educational attainment and …

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Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation : theory and application to Europe and the U.S.

Maniquet, François; Neumann, Dirk - 2016

In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line...

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Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the USA

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 2010

A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions - asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel - such as how happy do you feel on a scale from 1 to 4? Yet there is little...

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